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This! Political activism is about networking and mutual aid, not visibility in media. At least it should be. Give me less Gretchen more aid workers.

I have considered joining NGOs, but they all require WhatsApp.

As well as helping, make sure to connect with these people and build up community bonds. Our power comes from unity.

Bingo. Anytime I see a too-large way of thinking, I try to suggesting thinking small. You can't save the rainforest, but you can plant a tree in your community, you know? And it feels good.

I volunteered as en EMT for about 10 years, until the second kid came, and COVID and all that. It was difficult, took me away from work and my family, long days, mentally and emotionally taxing at times, and one of the more rewarding experiences I've had in my life. And it was all done within a few miles of my home. I (like to think) I had an impact on my community, and it feels good.

How do you find these in person gatherings, most of my socialization with other Americans happens through work and I cannot be my authentic self at work because that has negative consequences in my experience, the American work culture is kind depressing, where everyone seems to be in some rat race to be the most busy and most productive or at least pretend to be so, most of my interactions lack human warmth and it all feels fake and performative, I have to be guarded about what I say so that it doesn't come back to bite me even with colleague's of the same level and I am tired of the expectations of overwork and constant threat of being laid off of the right people don't have a high opinion of you.

Yes.

The rich used to take the same transport as the rest of us. They could be in a separate car on the train but they were still attached. Then they got automobiles and could drive on their own and we built highways to connect their favorite places. But can only get so far and planes were invented. Now they are stuck with the poors again but up in first class.

Now they have private jets and all the roads full of the regular people, the trains and the planes. They remote in or call in from their cellphone instead of being in the actual office.

The wealthy dont live like the rest of us anymore. And their social group is much more carefully curated to not let us in. They dont want to know regular people.

It's not a competition, and if it is, it's not one anyone should want to win

New to the ~~US~~ World, or just seeing it for the first time?

Make an app that tracks them ... it seems to bother them. They dont seem to care if companies spy on us, so spy on them. Im sure nothing bad could happen just from an app that shows the physical location of a politician, CEO, or billionaire.

I mean, you could mention it. You could probably mention it easier if people would stop using .world as the default for everything, but you can mention it.

I think it's a little too quick to be thought of as THE SOLUTION. Everyone seems to have absorbed just a teeny bit of the action hero mentality though, because that action will never be cleanly carried out. It will be a massive shit show for decades.* Every martin luther king jr. needs their malcolm x, sure, I absolutely believe that viewpoint, but the peaceful community advocating and community building needs to be emphasized and practiced (that's the important bit, after all) more.

*There are far too many folks (in the US part of the "clowns of the world" mentioned) that are literally next door to the people that they will want to go after, and they've been itching to do it. Nothing that breaks the peace will see inaction from those folks, and that's what pushes me to always advocate. I don't want to be the cause of innocents suddenly being lynched because they happen to live in a deep red area and some sort of 'civil war 2: electric boogaloo' breaks out... And I use that electric boogaloo specifically because it is a pretty stark reminder (I hope), that those sorts of folks have been literally talking about what they have wanted to do for decades at this point. Unless the lefties break out some secret plans, they're going to be out-organized and very out-planned.

The first step is to organize, start a local community group and exercise your combined people power.

People love an easy answer to excuse why they can treat someone else with less care or not listen to them as if they are already wrong. We love the little lies that make life easier. Its far less effort needed than trying to understand.

went to my first protest this decade for labor day! met some really interesting folks and found a couple local groups i'm gonna meet up with later this week. can't really recommend this enough

Not too many more; you'll either die in the camps here, or, after a couple brief decades of the living envying the dead, the planet will no longer support life, and you will necessarily die.

he had his moments

It seemed to work well for Russia. Oh wait... no, no it did not at all.